neo-Gothic style


neo-Gothic style

Historicist, romantic, and catholic attempts to revive Gothic medieval art from the late eighteenth to the end of the nineteenth centuries. The first furniture designs were published in 1742, influenced Chippendale, and produced the Gothic Windsor chair, popular for two decades. Regency Gothic preceded the stronger nineteenth-century revival, which swept the continent during the 1830s, and dominated American work 1830–80 ending with the Eastlake phase.